Drones, self-hosting and tinkering
A hobby blog from Cork about the things I build, fly and fix: drones, home servers, self-hosted services, and doing my own car maintenance.
Latest posts
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ntopng on a FRITZ!Box: watching my network, until it slowed my internet
I used the FRITZ!Box packet trace to feed ntopng and see every device on my network. Then came 500 alerts in three…
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Getting my health data off a Huawei watch and onto my own server
Huawei Health keeps your steps, sleep and heart rate to itself. Here is how I got my watch data onto my home…
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Past and present motorcycles
The bikes I have owned over the years, from a TDM850 and a Zephyr 750 to the Blackbird, an R1100RT and a…
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When Docker says “Up” but DNS is dead: a watchdog and Uptime Kuma
Technitium hung on my Raspberry Pi while Docker still showed it as “Up”. How I found it, and the healthcheck, watchdog and…
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WireGuard on a FRITZ!Box: my home network, anywhere
How I use the FRITZ!Box’s built-in WireGuard VPN to reach my self-hosted dashboards and admin pages from anywhere, without exposing them to…
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My 3-2-1 backup plan (and the gaps I found)
An honest look at what my home server backs up today, the gaps I found, and how a new 10 TB drive…
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